February
24, 2005Following
their November 2 electoral melt-down, the Sisterhood and the rest of the
radical Left lapsed into bitterness and despair. Sensing that Middle America
is turning a cold shoulder on their socialist agenda, the rad-fems have
now unleashed a last-ditch campaign of intimidation, accusations, and
threats.

On January
9, former Indiana representative Tim Roemer announced he was running for
the top post of the Democratic National Committee. Many believed Roemer
was exactly the boost the wilting Democratic Party needed - someone with
a moderate ideology, fresh ideas, and Midwestern roots. But there was
a slight problem: Mr. Roemer is a Catholic, and his resume' revealed a
pro-life voting record.

That was
more than the pro-abortion jihadists in the Democratic Party could stomach.

With cat-like
stealth, "they" put together an "opposition research memo,"
pol-speak for a smear campaign. I put "they" in quotation marks
because no one was willing to admit who perpetrated the hatchet job.

Next,
Nancy Keenan, incoming president of NARAL Pro-Choice America (that's a
feel-good name, isn't it?) powered up the feminist buzz-saw. She ordered
NARAL's state affiliates to pressure the 447 DNC delegates to toe the
pro-abortion line.

Roemer
is as feisty a politician as you will get. But the NARAL activists turned
his abortion views into a single-issue litmus test, and soon he was forced
to withdraw. An angered Roemer later commented they "tried to make
abortion the radioactive anvil that hung around my neck.They threw two
kitchen sinks at me."

Then just
five days after Roemer announced his DNC candidacy, Harvard president
Lawrence Summers made a comment that "innate differences" between
the sexes may account for why top science positions are filled mostly
by males. Sitting in the audience was one MIT professor Nancy Hopkins.
Upon hearing his remarks, Hopkins nearly swooned and had to exit the room.

The Fearsome
Felines became so enraged over Summers' suggestion that they mounted a
campaign designed to embarrass and humiliate the Harvard president. Summers
soon confessed to his ideological revisionism and commenced a round of
self-criticism. But that wasn't enough, and now the N.O.W operatives are
calling for a complete ideological cleansing.

Dismayed
by the Soviet show-trial atmosphere at Harvard, civil-liberties lawyer
Harvey
A. Silvergate remarked, "The modern university is the culmination
of a 20-year trend of irrationalism marked by an increasingly totalitarian
approach to highly politicized issues."

The missteps
of Roemer and Summers were bad enough, but after all, they were made by
members of the male oppressor class. What really stirs up a cat fight,
though, is when a woman - a woman! - hisses at the Sisterhood.

That's
what happened on February 13, when the Los Angeles Times ran a piece by
Charlotte Allen. Commenting
on the dearth of female intellectuals, Allen explained, "Ideological
feminism has ghettoized and trivialized the subject matter of women's
writing."

The feminist
catechism does not take well to apostasy, and it fell to one Susan Estrich
to deliver the ex-communication. Estrich is the ultra-liberal University
of South California law professor who likely would have been John Kerry's
first nomination to the United States Supreme Court.

First,
Estrich broadcast a thermonuclear e-mail accusing the Times of "blatant
sex discrimination" and calling for a quota for female columnists.
Worst of all, she branded Miss Allen a "feminist-hater." Off
with her head!

Then in
an exchange of e-mails with opinion-page editor Michael Kinsley, Estrich
pulled out every intimidation tactic in the book. She threatened to approach
the LA Times advertisers. She accused the Times' male editors of "unconscious
discrimination" -- how's that for the mother of all guilt trips?

And then
showing incredibly bad taste, she suggested that Kinsley's health "may
have affected your brain, your judgment, and your ability to do this job."
But Kinsley refused to give in to Estrich's sourpuss demands.

Now, the
cat is out of the bag, so to speak. Let's just say that Susan Estrich
is no longer on anyone's short list for the U.S. Supreme Court.

Anyone
who has had dealings with the rad-fems knows how they rely on every type
of psychological, social, and legal manipulation to get their way. Give
them an inch, and they take a mile. In the past, these machinations took
place behind closed doors, so the public remained in the dark. But now,
their storm-trooper tactics have come out of the closet, for all the world
to see.

Hooray
for editor Michael Kinsley and all the other men and women who Just Say
No to the feminist bullies.